Toshiba Chromebook

Toshiba dabbles with Chromebooks

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Toshiba Chromebook

8 January 2014

After teasing us with news of joining the Chromebook ranks at the Intel Developer Forum in September, Toshiba has finally pulled back the curtain on its first ChromeOS-powered laptop, the aptly named Toshiba Chromebook.

Curiously enough, Toshiba’s laptop is the first Chromebook to ship with a 13″ screen. While 13″ are all the rage on Macs and Windows PCs, most Chromebooks skew towards smaller, netbook-esque 10″ and 11″ screens. The additional screen size also helps the Toshiba Chromebook squeeze in a full-sized keyboard, giving you a bit more room than its diminutive counterparts. It is expected to retail at under $300.

That TruBrite TN (twisted nematic) display packs a bog-standard resolution of 1366×768 pixels, as one would expect of a budget-priced Chromebook. Unlike the display on Acer’s recent Chromebook release, however, Toshiba’s isn’t a touchscreen.

The 0.8″ thick machine weighs 3.3lbs, packs 2Gb of RAM, an Intel “Haswell” Celeron processor, and a 16Gb solid-state drive augmented by 100Gb of free Google Drive storage, all standard for a Chromebook. Connectivity-wise, the Toshiba Chromebook packs a pair of speedy USB 3.0 ports, a full-sized HDMI port, a memory card reader, a security lock slot, and both Bluetooth and 802.11n Wi-Fi.

The energy-efficiency of Intel’s Haswell processor helps boost the Toshiba Chromebook’s estimated battery life all the way to nine hours – just enough for a full work day plus a wee bit of overtime worked in. That, plus the 13″ display, seem to be the Toshiba Chromebooks main differences from the rest of the Google-powered horde.

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